GW
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GW
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Trying to be skeptical without being cynical.
Too many years in finance.
Tech, games, autos, dogs...
Driving Down Memory Lane in VW’s Scirocco and Corrado www.motortrend.com/features/vol...
Driving Down Memory Lane in VW’s Scirocco and Corrado
Cranking up the way-back machine for a spin in two of Volkswagen’s first front-drive sporty coupes.
www.motortrend.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Fuckin yikes, man
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”
'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
www.nbcnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.

Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.

We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. https://cnn.it/45yvNjJ
Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on imm...
cnn.it
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
July 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
16% of respondents have "a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court".

On the bright side, only 13% say climate change is "not happening".

apnews.com/projects/pol...
Latest AP Polls | AP-NORC Polling
New and historic polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on presidential approval, the U.S. economy and other issues.
apnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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BOOCKVAR: After seeing the Japan deal, we assume "$2.9 Trillion that will be taxed at 15% and that equals $435 Billion of taxes on US consumers and businesses .. For context, US companies pay about $525 Billion of corporate income taxes to the US govt."

peterboockvar.substack.com/p/great-to-s...
Great to see a trade deal but.../JGB yields jumping again in response/Mixed commentary still from calls
I want to quickly start by saying that Bleakley Financial Group has officially changed its name to One Point BFG Wealth Partners.
peterboockvar.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Trump's threats to fire Jerome Powell are being covered by the US press with the wrong lens. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans or Trump vs. the Fed. This is a story about why authoritarian rulers who remove constraints on their power destroy prosperity. I explain why here:
Jerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of Odysseus
Why strongman presidents become weaker—to everyone's peril—when they remove constraints on their own power.
www.forkingpaths.co
July 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
History rhymes....
"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.
July 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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If blue states kept their money, they would be fine or even better off. Red states would be in deep financial trouble.

Example: California is the fourth largest economy on Earth. It grows over one third of America’s vegetables and two thirds of its fruits and nuts.
July 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Agree with everything in this piece. But what happens when R voters are told by state propaganda that this bill is actually *not* responsible for their economic hardship, and it's somehow the fault of Dems? Will they believe their own eyes or the propaganda?

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"Two weeks" is Trump's favorite unit of time, @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social notes. Tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories, the ISIS fight, new coal mines, infrastructure plans—all were at one point riddles he promised to solve in about two weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
For Trump, ‘Two Weeks’ Is the Magic Number
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Excellent, beautiful, tragic, and true by @dannagal.bsky.social.
Gift link:
Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.
June 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM